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title: Bofe un um had kin 'mong de mo'ners, an' ef you ever see skufflin' a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bofe un um had kin 'mong de mo'ners, an' ef you ever see skufflin' an' scramblin' hit wuz den an' dar. Who acts: Bofe un um, you, scramblin. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 18

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Bofe un um had kin 'mong de mo'ners, an' ef you ever see skufflin' an' scramblin' hit wuz den an' dar.

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**Who acts:** Bofe un um, you, scramblin · **What happens:** have, see, hit · **To what, where:** kin, ef, wuz den

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bofe un um, you, scramblin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:48:18
# text = Bofe un um had kin 'mong de mo'ners, an' ef you ever see skufflin' an' scramblin' hit wuz den an' dar.
1	Bofe	Bofe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mong	mong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	mo'ners	mo'ner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	skufflin	skufflin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	scramblin	scramblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Bofe un um | kin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kin=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | a ef |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skufflin=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hit** | participle | a scramblin *not said here* | wuz den |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent den=Patient dar=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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